You know what you get when you dig deep pulltab signals?

ashleysflyr · Sep 28, 2009

DEEP PULLTABS!!!

I hope to one day meet the guy that invented the removable pulltab...in a dark alley. I dug 59 pulltabs and 3 nickles today. I am sure this is the normal ratio, but I want a buff from this park, so I tried digging all deep pulltab signals. 16-24 on VDI (18 being optimal) and at least 3 inches deep. 59:3! I'm smoked! It was rocky soil also.

I digress. These are from the same park I scored the two mercs, 10+ wheaties, silver Washington, and Barber dime. Today wasn't the best, but I still had fun! Here's the kills...

5 mems, 1 reg nickel
2 Wheaties 1941 1939 "S"
2 TAX tokens
2 War nicklels 1942 "P" 1945 "S"
Thanks for lookin'!!!

~Tom

njnydigger · Sep 28, 2009

Hey ashleysflyr, nice hunt there!!! I too have the MXT :headbang:

Yes, it does ROCK!!! You are right to be digging all or most signals. Over time you will find better stuff that way. Especially if you are a bit new to the game. One thing though, your trash to finds ratio seemed a bit high to me. Don't get me wrong, I too have days even tougher than yours with an even HIGHER trash ratio. However, if it's a buff you're after, they almost always ring up as a 18 or 20 VDI on the MXT's. Occassionally they will show up in the 16 or 22 VDI spots also, so, good move to dig those surrounding numbers. Just a tip, don't judge "good" targets by depth. I understand your reasoning (we've all done the same), but, a large number of my better finds were shallow targets. I dug a two cent piece that was about a half inch under the soil. A sapphire ring about an inch deep & my buff was maybe an inch to a inch and a half. You never know. Sure, deeper "normally" means older, however, not always. Just some thoughts from another proud MXT man. Keep up the good finds!!!

ashleysflyr · Sep 28, 2009

Thanks for the advice njny. I only narrowed it down to 3" or deeper because there are SOOO many "just the tab" pulltabs in the fist two inches in this park! Crazy! You are right though...My first IH (1899) was about 3", my oldest coin is an 1895 IH at about 1", and my only buff (no date) was about 2". Maybe one day, when I am not so darn sore (just got back in from training) I will go back and tear that place apart! HH!

~Tom

Mr Tuff · Sep 28, 2009

nice war nickles :icon_thumleft:

MR TUFF

mlayers · Sep 28, 2009

Not to bad of a day. Your ratio looks like what I dig most of the time. I also want to find those nickels and rings so I also dig those pull tab signals. But I keep them all and bring them home to my bucket that I have that collects them for the alumin it all adds up for $ at the end of the year....Matt

ivan salis · Sep 28, 2009

20 to 1 -- with 2 of the 3 being silvers not bad ratio wize --your likely to hit gold too that way now and then.

artzstuff1 · Sep 29, 2009

WOW !!!!! I think your kickin some @ss with that whites,,,,,as a matter of fact,,, I am going to have to give ya the coveted,,,,

MIKE THE CAT AWARD!!!!!!!,,,,,,

SO HERE YA GO!!!!

wingmaster · Sep 29, 2009

Good hunt there congrats yep you never know I dug my best coin at 1" 1876 seated quarter thought it had to be a hunter or someone detecting that dropped it. Never thought it would be a 1876 coin most old ones there was 4" to 6" deep.

Da Sand Crab · Sep 29, 2009

I think they should pass a law making illegal to remove pulltabs from aluminum cans. Why do people do it anyway? I don't think I've :icon_scratch:

ever removed one.

ivan salis · Sep 29, 2009

they are bored with nothing better to do. ---why do folks pick their noses and eat boogers? same reason -- actually their same folks .

Paul4x4 · Sep 29, 2009

ringman said:
I think they should pass a law making illegal to remove pulltabs from aluminum cans. Why do people do it anyway? I don't think I've ever removed one.

I have wondered the same thing!

I've once experimentally removed one, and I found it was pain trying to drink from the can after that because my lip sealed the hole air tight, and the beer wouldn't come out easily anymore... SO WHAT'S THE POINT DOING SO, PEOPLE!?!? :icon_scratch:

Bell-Two · Sep 29, 2009

Pull tabs are a pain, I think they guy that invented them is from my home town, I think of that whenever I dig one. The big problem isn't the pull tabs it is the SLOBS that throw them on the ground rather than put them in the trash! It is amazing especially in parks what trash you find when there are trash cans just twenty feet away from it.

crazyjarhead · Sep 29, 2009

Well, when you get them all dug out of there you can start finding the good stuff :wink:

WTG on being so vigilant :thumbsup:

ashleysflyr · Sep 29, 2009

Thanks for the cat award Artzstuff...a little disturbing, but thanks! Mlayers...not a bad idea, my wife recycles EVERYTHING! I can't wait for that gold find Ivan...
Now, for the pulltab thing...Some of you are old enough to remember pulling them off of cans in the late '60s/'70s. That was the only kind of pulltab that exsisted, and apparently they were EVERYWHERE! I wouldn't know because I wasn't alive then...lol
Crazy Jarhead...I did find some of my wheaties there just below a pulltab...and I am feeling much better today, so I think I am going to dig those tabs today...hoping to get those deep signals.
Look for a new post today folks! Thanks for lookin'!

~Tom

richtreasurehunter · Sep 29, 2009

I use the xterra 70 and mine run in that range also alot of pull tabs even the old ones the pennys are in the range 30 to 32 nice finds thou

spartacus53 · Sep 29, 2009

crazyjarhead said:
Well, when you get them all dug out of there you can start finding the good stuff WTG on being so vigilant

That is a yes and no on that statement. If you continue the same day, or perhaps the next day you may have a chance. Wait any longer than that some other idiot will be replacing the tabs you already pulled. It's a never ending battle. I think it's like like the gun, guns don't kill people, people do. Pull tabs don't magically fall, people toss them. What slobs.

But at least you are getting some good finds, that's all that counts. We all find losers

N.J.THer · Sep 29, 2009

Keep digging that many targets and the good stuff will start popping up. I go back to the same park all the time and it always produces a keeper or two each hunt. I have noticed that the depth has no rhyme or reason. I've found coins that were only a few decades old at 5 inches then found coins that were 150 to 300 years old at 2 and 3 inches. In parks it depends on if the ground was ever graded or filled. Good luck

By the way, Ermal Cleon Fraze the inventor of the pull tab died of a brain tumor at the age of 76 in 1989...RIP.

NJ